The H.G.Wells Anthology Ebook Tooltip Ebooks kunnen worden gelezen op uw computer en op daarvoor geschikte e-readers. 149 Novels, Novellas, Short Stories and Essays

This huge collection of H.G. Wells' writing, contains 149 separate works, including his famous novels of Science Fiction: 'The War of the Worlds', 'The Time Machine' and 'The Invisible Man', along with many others listed here below.

H.G.Wells earned his fame due to the remarkable prescience and realism of his science fiction stories, but he was also a highly accomplished writer of romantic novels, as well as a prolific author of short stories and political essays dealing with the issues of the era. There are many examples of all these different genres included in this massive anthology.

This collection of H.G.Wells work presents unparalleled value, offering carefully edited texts deliberately formatted for e-readers with an active table of contents for ease of navigation.

The 149 works in this Anthology are listed below:

Fiction: Science Fiction and Fantasy

1. The Time Machine (1895)

2. The Wonderful Visit (1895)

3. The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)

4. The Wheels of Chance (1896)

5. The Invisible Man (1897)

6. The War of the Worlds (1898)

7. The First Men in the Moon (1901)

8. The Sea Lady (1902)

9. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)

10. In the Days of the Comet (1906)

11. The War in the Air (1908)

12. When the Sleeper Awakes (1910)

13. The World Set Free (1914)

Fiction: Novels

1. Love and Mr. Lewisham (1900)

2. Kipps (1905)

3. Tono-Bungay (1909)

4. Ann Veronica (1909)

5. The History of Mr. Polly (1910)

6. The New Machiavelli (1911)

7. Marriage (1912)

8. The Passionate Friends (1913)

9. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)

10. The Research Magnificent (1915)

11. Mr. Britling Sees It Through (1916)

12. The Soul of a Bishop (1917)

13. The Secret Places of the Heart (1922)

Fiction: Short Stories

Certain Personal Matters:

1. Thoughts on Cheapness and My Aunt Charlotte

2. The Trouble of Life

3. On the Choice of a Wife

4. The House of Di Sorno: A Manuscript Found in a Box

5. Of Conversation: An Apology

6. A Literary Household

7. On Schooling and the Phases of Mr Sandsome

8. The Poet and the Emporium

9. The Language of Flowers

10. The Literary Regimen

11. House-Hunting as an Outdoor Amusement

12. Of Blades and Bladery

13. Of Cleverness: Apropos of One Crichton

14. The Pose Novel

15. The Veteran Cricketer

16. Concerning a Certain Lady

17. The Shopman

18. The Book of Curses

19. Dunstone's Dear Lady

20. Euphemia's New Entertainment

21. For Freedom of Spelling: The Discovery of an Art

22. Incidental Thoughts on a Bald Head

23. Of a Book Unwritten

24. The Extinction of Man

25. The Writing of Essays

26. The Parkes Museum: The Place to Spend a Happy Day

27. Bleak March in Epping Forest

28. The Theory of Quotation

29. On the Art of Staying at the Seaside: A Meditation at Eastbourne

30. Concerning Chess

31. The Coal Scuttle: A Study in Domestic Aesthetic

32. Bagarrow

33. The Book of Essays Dedicatory

34. Through a Microscope: Some Moral Reflections

35. The Pleasure of Quarreling

36. The Amateur Nature-Lover

37. From an Observatory

38. The Mode in Monuments: Stray Thoughts in Highgate Cemetery

39. How I Died

Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct), and Two Other Reminiscences:

1. Of Conversation and the Anatomy of Fashion

2. The Theory of the Perpetual Discomfort of Humanity

3. The Use of Ideals

4. The Art of Being Photographed

5. Bagshot's Mural Decorations

6. On Social Music

7. The Joy of Being Engaged

8. La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Rhapsody

9. On a Tricycle

10. An Unsuspected Masterpiece: Authoress Unknown

11. The Great Change

12. The Pains of Marriage

13. A Misunderstood Artist

14. A Man With a Nose

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents:

1. The Stolen Bacillus

2. The Flowering of the Strange Orchid

3. In The AVU Observatory

4. The Triumphs of a Taxidermist

5. A Deal in Ostriches

6. Through a Window

7. The Temptation of Harringay

8. The Flying Man

9. The Diamond Maker

10. Aepyornis Island

11. The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes

12. The Lord of the Dynamos

13. The Hammerpond Park Burglary

14. A Moth - Genus Novo

15. The Treasure in the Forest

Tales of Space and Time:

1. The Crystal Egg

2. The Star

3. A Story of the Stone Age: I-Ugh-Lomi and Uya

4. A Story of the Days to Come

5. The Man Who Could Work Miracles: A Pantoum in Prose

Twelve Stories and a Dream:

1. Filmer

2. The Magic Shop

3. The Valley of Spiders

4. The Truth About Pyecraft

5. Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland

6. The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost

7. Jimmy Goggles the God

8. The New Accelerator

9. Mr Ledbetter's Vacation

10. The Stolen Body

11. Mr Brisher's Treasure

12. Miss Winchelsea's Heart

13. A Dream of Armageddon

The Plattner Story and Others:

1. The Plattner Story

2. The Argonauts of the Air

3. The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham

4. In the Abyss

5. The Apple

6. Under the Knife

7. The Sea Raiders

8. Pollock and the Porroh Man

9. The Red Room

Other Short Stories:

1. The Cone

2. The Purple Pileus

3. The Jilting of Jane

4. In the Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story

5. A Catastrophe

6. The Lost Inheritance

7. The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic

8. A Slip Under the Microscope

9. The Door in the Wall

10. A Moonlight Fable

11. The Country of the Blind

12. The Obliterated Man

13. The Empire of the Ants

14. The Beautiful Suit

Non-Fiction: Social and Political Questions

1. A Modern Utopia (1905)

2. Anticipations of the Reactions of Mechanical and
Scientific Progress upon uponHuman Life and Thought (1901)

3. Mankind in the Making (1903)

4. New Worlds for Old (1908)

5. First and Last Things (1908)

6. An Englishman Looks at the World (1914)

7. What is Coming? (1916)

8. God the Invisible King (1917)

9. War and the Future (aka Italy, France and Britain at
War) (1917)

10. In the Fourth Year (1918)

11. The Salvaging of Civilization (1921)

Non-Fiction: Miscellaneous Writings

1. Floor Games (1911)

2. Little Wars (1913)

3. A Short History of the World (1922)